Co-op'd this with my gf and had a pretty solid time with it. It's ambitious for a Lego game and so full of fun details and fun humor. A lot of the gags land pretty well and it makes some of the movies (episode 9 in particular) decently fun to re-experience in a goofier context.
My main issue is that while I do genuinely respect and even enjoy the ambition and scope this is going for overall it feels way too bloated. The combat has an upgrade tree but no real reason to use it because combat is extremely easy. There's lots of detail in each hub and the areas in general but their size also makes half of what you're doing in this game walking from one point to another just following dots around a map in fairly uninteresting segments.
Some of the episodes in this are also just adapted in extremely boring ways. The prequel trilogy is egregiously padded with following characters around hubs and walking from place to place. Episode 9 is paced really boringly for basically the same reasons too. It ends up feeling like there are levels throughout this entire game that just feel like complete time wasters of running around hub levels doing fairly boring quests with funny dialogue. It just feels like while I understand for some levels why they gotta pad them out the way they do, there's some where it just feels apparent that they didn't really know how to really do anything interesting with them and that's kinda lame.
Some of this also just feels like it wasn't fully thought well out for co-op and having the second player contribute to fights and setpieces in fun or interesting ways. Episode 6 has an actually decently neat co-op Vader and Luke fight but Episode 3's final fight has player 2 be C3PO and R2D2 for some reason and not Anakin? It's a very bizarre choice that just doesn't really work for me at all especially when the older games did exactly that. Not that I need to be fighting every second but it just wasn't always that engaging to me or felt like what the second player in that scene was doing felt like a complete afterthought.
Overall though even with my complaints I still had a solid time I just wish they reigned in some of the scope a bit and focused/polished up some of the episodes and levels a bit more. Ballin around as BB-8 was cozy.
My main issue is that while I do genuinely respect and even enjoy the ambition and scope this is going for overall it feels way too bloated. The combat has an upgrade tree but no real reason to use it because combat is extremely easy. There's lots of detail in each hub and the areas in general but their size also makes half of what you're doing in this game walking from one point to another just following dots around a map in fairly uninteresting segments.
Some of the episodes in this are also just adapted in extremely boring ways. The prequel trilogy is egregiously padded with following characters around hubs and walking from place to place. Episode 9 is paced really boringly for basically the same reasons too. It ends up feeling like there are levels throughout this entire game that just feel like complete time wasters of running around hub levels doing fairly boring quests with funny dialogue. It just feels like while I understand for some levels why they gotta pad them out the way they do, there's some where it just feels apparent that they didn't really know how to really do anything interesting with them and that's kinda lame.
Some of this also just feels like it wasn't fully thought well out for co-op and having the second player contribute to fights and setpieces in fun or interesting ways. Episode 6 has an actually decently neat co-op Vader and Luke fight but Episode 3's final fight has player 2 be C3PO and R2D2 for some reason and not Anakin? It's a very bizarre choice that just doesn't really work for me at all especially when the older games did exactly that. Not that I need to be fighting every second but it just wasn't always that engaging to me or felt like what the second player in that scene was doing felt like a complete afterthought.
Overall though even with my complaints I still had a solid time I just wish they reigned in some of the scope a bit and focused/polished up some of the episodes and levels a bit more. Ballin around as BB-8 was cozy.